A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.
ALAN HIRSCHIf we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture.
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Nowadays we raise our children in a cocoon of domesticated security, far from any sense of risk or adventure.
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It not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
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Interestingly, it’s as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey.
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Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God.
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When there is no possibility of retreat, we will find the innovation that only the liminal situation can bring.
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Who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.
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In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit.
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Whether we like it or not, we are all on a journey, a Quest if you will, every day of our lives, and the path we must take is full of perils, and our destiny can never be predicted in advance.
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The mission of God flows directly through every believer and every community of faith that adheres to Jesus.
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Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
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Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.
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There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.
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Expressions of the Holy Spirit’s power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture.
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Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
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The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
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